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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists unveiled the world's fastestsupercomputer on Monday, a $100 million machine that for the first timehas performed 1,000 trillion calculations per second in a sustainedexercise.

An IBM engineer inspects the world's fastest computer in the company's Poughkeepsie, New York, plant.

If you see a computer being infected with a “MonaRonaDona virus,”you be might be interested to know that this “virus” has been makingits rounds the past week.

According to the security researchers over at Kaspersky, theMonaRonaDona virus is actually a custom software and is part of anelaborate scam to sell fake antivirus software. Ironically, its role inthe scheme of things is to panic the users into taking action toeradicate it.

Excerpt from ComputerWorld:

Unlike most viruses and Trojans which try to go abouttheir evil task as invisibly as possible, the MonaDonaRona Trojandisplays a broadly visibly message in front of the victim. It says,“Welcome to MonaRonaDona. I am a Virus & I am here to wreck yourPC. If you observe strange behavior with your PC, like program Windowsdisappearing, etc., it’s me who’s doing this.” The message claims it’sall part of a human rights protest.

Just over three years ago, Electronic Arts tackled the sports genre by announcing it had signed a multiyear exclusivity deal with the National Football League and the NFL Players,the players' union. Under the agreement, EA Sports' Madden NFLfranchise was the sole official licensee for the US' most popularsport, forcing rival 2K Sports to get creative with its own pro-football series.

Today, EA Sports announced that it has extended its contract with theNFL and NFL Players through the 2012 season. That means the RedwoodCity, California-based publisher will retain exclusive game rights toall NFL teams, stadiums, and player likenesses and information throughuntil the Super Bowl XLVII champion is crowned in 2013.

Though Madden NFL is its most famous franchise, EA Sports alsopublishes a variety of other NFL games, including NFL Street and NFLTour. However, part of the renewal agreement is to "look at differentways to bring more consumers in," according to EA Sports presidentPeter Moore.

One way Moore is hoping to lure more Americans into the Madden fold isthrough the incorporation of content from the NFL Films productioncompany and the NFL Network cable channel into the "Madden gameexperience." Other new EA Sports initiatives include a continuation ofthe "family play" option for Wii games, expanded investment in thewildly popular fantasy football phenomenon, and undefined initiativesto court football fans during the spring and summer months.

"Both EA Sports and the NFL agree that we need to look at differentways to bring more consumers in," Moore told GameSpot. "Traditionally,when the Super Bowl's over, our football business is over, and there'sresearch that shows there are millions of people out there that can'tget enough football 12 months a year."

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While it seems only yesterday that 65nm process got to the enthusiast, Intel is today telling us about very affordable 45nm processors that are ready to come to market.

These are of course not the first 45nm processors we have heard about. Since back in January of 2007 Intel has been talking this up and rightly so. Late in 2007 Intel introduced and delivered 45nm Penryn processors, albeit only at the high end with the QX9650 and later the QX9770, although the QX9770 was soft launched with noted January availability but is not mentioned today.